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Re: Microsoft XSL and Conformance
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- Subject: Re: Microsoft XSL and Conformance
- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo at metalab dot unc dot edu>
- Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:00:31 -0500
- References: <71EFB697F464184990DF0AC5B050E9EE0353A2E7@RED-MSG-17>
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>Hi all,
>
>I'm Andy Kimball, the Microsoft XSL developer. After today's "nested
>template abomination" discussion, I had a couple of comments. First,
>Microsoft is committed to delivering a conformant XSLT processor. If you
>don't believe "Microsoft", then at least believe me. I'm writing the thing.
>I've often gritted my teeth and implemented some feature that I thought was
>inelegant, less than useful, or arbitrarily limited, just to be compliant.
>As I receive feedback from the XSL community, I've been surprised at how
>vocal and passionate people are about conformance (of course, people also
>want performance, scalability, and usability without any trade-offs, and
>they want it yesterday--unrealistic, but understandable). Now, I may not be
>able to cross every tiny 't', and dot every insignificant 'i', but I will
>make a good-faith effort to implement according to the 1.0 spec. If you
>find conformance problems that concern you, feel free to e-mail me at
>akimball@microsoft.com.
>
>~Andy Kimball
>
>
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Thanks for the tip. I've posted a correction.
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